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Hind Site Made Slightly More Accurate

Adam Mathes, the genius who cofounded Consumating with me, also plays the role of ombudsman for this web site. After reading my post about Consumating’s point system, he dug up this email exchange from April of 2005. At the time, he and I were working on the code we had written for […]


I Love My Chicken Wire Mommy

The topic of member points and reward systems online and offline is interesting to me, so over the next few posts, I will be babbling about this topic in a new Ben Brown Blog Miniseries entitled “I Love My Chicken Wire Mommy.”
One of the things that I tell people who want to build an […]


Launchables!

When I left CNET in April, my plan was to work on a bunch of projects with a bunch of different people so that I could launch a new project roughly every month and have lots of fun and work on a variety of different things and learn about stuff. Last month, Neal […]


Introducing Offsprung!

To the approximately 100 people who read this site, 50% via feeds and 50% the old fashion way, I say ACHTUNG! How are you? It has been so long since we chatted! Oh, it is just so good to see you. Isn’t this weather crazy? I mean, statistically speaking, you […]


What do you do?

My friend Heather Gold has a live talk show where she cleverly tricks interesting people into saying very interesting things around a theme of her devising. If you live in San Francisco, you should attend, it is just your kind of thing! They happen at the JCC. You have to buy tickets […]


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